Paying the Price: College Costs, Financial Aid, and the Betrayal of the American Dream, by Sara Goldrick-Rab
Book of the week: Working through university crushes US students. Laurie Taylor fears the UK will share their pain
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Brexit turmoil ‘pushes university pension deficit to £15 billion’
Plugging a multibillion-pound deficit exacerbated by June’s poll result may require ‘drastic measures’, analysts have warned
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In Praise of Profanity, by Michael Adams
Seneca meets The Sopranos in a lively who, what, when, where and why of cursing, says Tom Palaima
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What are you reading? – 20 October 2016
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Red Ellen: The Life of Ellen Wilkinson, Socialist, Feminist, Internationalist, by Laura Beers
Clare Griffiths on a study of the whirlwind life of the flame-haired Labour minister
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Success rates data may mask gender bias
Experts question whether funders are doing enough to tackle discrimination in grant applications
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Married to the(ir) job: living with an academic
Scholars and their significant others share the good, the bad and the ugly
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The week in higher education – 20 October 2016
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Grant winners – 20 October 2016
A round-up of recent recipients of research council cash
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Laurie Taylor – 20 October 2016
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
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The class ceiling: why aren’t there more academics like me?
UUK must help advance equality at the front of the lecture hall through loan write-offs and conferences, says Geraldine Van Bueren
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Universities must prepare ECRs for life outside academia
Only one in 10 PhD graduates will work in academia. Institutions have to do more to ready the other nine for their careers, says a postdoctoral research fellow
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How US universities became IP-based capitalists
In embracing ‘cognitive capitalism’, US universities have moved from knowledge generation to income generation, argues Henry Heller